At its professional Developers Conference this week, Microsoft Corp. quietly revealed an updated version of its SQLXML Web release add-on for the SQL Server 2000 database. All of the major database ...

In case you missed it, Microsoft resurrected the old XML Notepad last year. The new version, XML Notepad 2007, is a .NET 2.0 application for which source code is available on CodePlex. I find it the ...

DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER MARK Lucovsky was chief architect of Microsoft’s HailStorm project and has now turned his attention to the server group. But his interests remain wide-ranging, as evidenced by ...

Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an ISO standard. The proposal must now be revised to take into account the ...

More specifically, the Geneva-based organization formed a Technical Committee to produce a formal standard of the work that is compatible with Office Open XML formats. That committee will take on ...